The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-01-08
Railroad Notes.

Railroad Notes.
toba and Montana Central will disburse
$S,OOO,O0O from Buford to Butte, via
Helena during the next twelve months,
in construction work.
The Manitoba branch line between
Hutchinson Junction and Hutchinson,
Minnesota, was opened January 1st,
making through line between St. Paul
and Aberdeen, Dakota.
The Utah & Northern railroad COM
pany has placed lights on all the main
track switches in the Dillon yard, which
show white light when the track is
clear and red one when the switch is
open.
The Wells, Fnrgo Express company
have retired from the Oregon Railway and
Navigation company's railway lines and
it is understood will shortly be retired
from the Oregon Navigation lines, thus
ending the fight with the Northern Pa
c,fc Express company.
Independent: The Northern Pacific
surveying party, with E. A. Cralle in
charge, left on last nights train for Drum
mond, whittier they 60 for the purpose of
establishing preliminary railroad sur
vey through the country in the vicinity of
Philipsburg. They expect to be en-
ployed in the work some months.
A laboring man of Mincrville, Pa, has
patented car brake which he thinks is
much better than the Westinghouse brake.
He says it can stop freight car running
at the rate of thlrty-iv miles an hour in
fifteen feet, lock the wheels dead IN six or
eight seconds, and stop locomotive run
ming at the rate Of forty miles an hour be-
fore it has moved twenty five feet. He
has been offered $4,000 for his invention.
In speaking of the switchback on the
Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific,
the Kittitas Localizer says: There are
twenty eight bridges on the switchback,
Or trestles, more properly speaking, some
of which are $50 high. On the west side
of the switchback there is point from
which six crossings of the track can be
seen, which in its curvings measures about
three miles, while ON a straight line the
distance is but half mile.
jamestown Alert, I'd: The trains on
the jamestown s. Northern will be dis
continued after next week. Although it
is the best paying branch controlled by
the Northern Pacific, the snow fall has
been so heavy this winter that it is al
most impossible to keep the road open.
This will be quite an inconvenience to
the residents along the line, but will
probably not continue longer than a
month or six weeks. 1t is not known
what disposition will be made of the
mail, but it will probably be carried by
stage, and likewise the express.
Chief Engineer Dodge, of the Montana
Central, while in st. Paul this week, told
a representative of the Helena Indepen
dent that the company will build to Butte
from Helena as soon as the right of way
bill becomes law. The route strikes
from Helena parallel with the Northern
Pacific to point between Jefferson and
Wickes. Features of the work are one
mile and an eight-hundredfoot tunnel
which will obviate heavy grades and sharp
curves The survey has been made and
the line practically located between the
two cities.
The contract for constructing the road
of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie &
Atlantic from Turtle Lake to Minneapolis
has been let to Henry & Belch and r. B.
Langdon s. Co. The contractors haye al
ready commenced preparations for the
building of the bridge piers at the cross
ing of the st. Croix. The piling will be
done this winter, and sufficient number
of ties will be cut to finish the entire line.
The contract provides that the road is to
be completed from Minneapolis to Turtle
Lake by August 81, 1887. President
Washburn says that the $500 road will
be running trains into Minneapolis by
January 1, 1888.
Two Good Finds.
Billion Examiner: On Sunday last
Con Bray went up to the Legal Tender
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